Tag: Foreign Policy

President Donald Trump speaks outside at a podium.

New Trump travel ban targets countries in Middle East and Africa

Anna Giaritelli · December 16, 2025 4:28 pm

A close-up image of the Islamic State group flag.

Islamic State group gunman in Syria attack worked in state security forces

Emily Hallas · December 15, 2025 3:19 pm

A wall of drones on display at Killhouse, the training and R&D facility of Ukraine's 3rd Assault Brigade.

How Ukraine’s military overachieves

Timothy P. Carney · December 14, 2025 8:00 am

President Donald Trump attends a meeting of his Cabinet alongside (L-R) U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in the Cabinet Room of the White House on December 02, 2025 in Washington, DC. A bipartisan Congressional investigation has begun regarding Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's role in ordering U.S. military strikes on small boats in the waters off Venezuela that have killed scores of people, which Hegseth said are intended "to stop lethal drugs, destroy narco-boats and kill the narco-terrorists who are poisoning the American people.” (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Seizing the tanker was the Monroe Doctrine in action

Hugo Gurdon · December 12, 2025 6:10 am

IDF Military Drone Unit seen training with drones near Kibbutz Merom Golan, on the Syrian border in northern Golan Heights, Israel on June 26, 2025. (Photo by Michael Giladi / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL GILADI/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump administration pushes diplomacy between Israel and a pair of long-hostile neighbors

Michele Chabin · December 12, 2025 5:09 am

President Donald Trump holds up the name of the USA during the draw for the 2026 soccer World Cup at the Kennedy Center on Dec. 5. (Jia Haocheng/Pool Photo via AP)

New national security strategy a throwback to 1823

Jamie McIntyre · December 12, 2025 4:58 am

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 13, 2019. - Trump hosted his Colombian counterpart, Ivan Duque, at the White House on Wednesday to discuss their campaign to pressure Venezuela's far left president, Nicolas Maduro, from power. The Trump-Duque talks in the Oval Office, followed by lunch, will give the allies a chance to compare notes just as the standoff between Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaido heats up over the arrival of mostly US aid shipments. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s new global order will make the US more vulnerable

Dan Hannan · December 12, 2025 4:50 am

Illlustration by Dean MacAdam for the Washington Examiner Garbage Generation China Beijing

‘Garbage time’ for China’s ‘last generation’

Gordon Chang · December 12, 2025 4:08 am

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Ukraine steps up sea drone attacks on Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’

Emily Hallas · December 11, 2025 12:37 pm

A U.S. Navy plane passes by a Chinese flag.

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Today’s threats require a new posture from our intelligence community

Rep. Pat Fallon · December 11, 2025 9:16 am

A Denmark's soccer team supporter waves the national flag as he waits for friends outside the stadium ahead of the Group C match between the Denmark and Serbia at the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in Munich, Germany, Tuesday, June 25, 2024.

Denmark labels US as possible security threat over ‘uncertainty’

Emily Hallas · December 10, 2025 12:35 pm

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Beltway Confidential

Europe absolutely does not have freer speech than the US

Tom Rogan · December 9, 2025 3:53 pm